A prequel to the first Cube movie, portraying for the first time what's outside the cube. The story follows the life of Eric Wynn (Zachary Bennett), a technician/director of cube workings (triggering traps, watching cameras, etc). The movie opens on a prisoner running the cube, and inevitably dying. However unlike the other movies, the camera pans out to a video feed, showing two people watching... Eric expresses disgust at one of the prisoners deaths while finishing up a game of chess with Dodd (David Huband) another technician (who seems unshaken about the whole thing). New prisoners are placed inside the cube: a dream showing that they were in fact captured exclusively for this purpose, and the usual cycle of 'Where am I!?' traps and death begins, meeting up with the other prisoners along the way. However, the dream was being recorded by Eric, who sees that they were not volunteers or facing a death sentence as he believed, and he promptly calls 'upstairs'. 'Upstairs' sends a higher ranked technician down to Eric's station, only to discover that Eric has gone into the cube, and using his genius and prior knowledge, with the intention to get the prisoners out.
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Zachary Bennett | Eric Wynn |
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David Huband | Dodd |
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Stephanie Moore | Cassandra Rains |
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Martin Roach | Robert P. Haskell |
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Terri Hawkes | Jellico |
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Richard McMillan | Bartok |
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Mike Nahrgang | Meyerhold |
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Tony Munch | Owen |
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Michael Riley | Jax |
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Joshua Peace | Finn |
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Diego Klattenhoff | Quigley |
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Alexia Filippeos | Anna |
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Jasmin Geljo | Ryjkin |
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Fernando Curcione | Doctor |
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Flossie McKnight | Female Doctor |
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Kyle McDonald | Squad Leader |
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Sandi Ross | Chandler |
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Dino Bellisario | Smith |
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Ashley James | McCaw |
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Zero the Fish | Self |
| Director | Ernie Barbarash |
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| Writer | Ernie Barbarash | |
| Producer | Ernie Barbarash, Dennis Berardi, Peter Block, Suzanne Colvin, Jon P. Goulding, Michael Paseornek, Eric J. Robertson | |
| Musician | Norman Orenstein | |
| Photography | François Dagenais | |
| Edition | Special Edition |
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| Packaging | Keep Case |
| Nr Discs | 2 |
| Screen Ratios | 1.77:1 |
| Audio Tracks | Dolby Digital 5.1 [English] |
| Distributor | Lions Gate |
| Layers | Single side, Single layer |
| Edition Release Date | Feb 22, 2005 |
| Regions | Region 1 |
| Owner | Quick |
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| Location | Horror Disk 1 |
| Purchased | At YTS for $ 14.98 |
| Watched | Sep 03, 2013 (at Home) |
| Index | 108 |
| Added Date | Jul 06, 2017 01:32:40 |
| Modified Date | Sep 24, 2018 19:33:44 |
My quick rating - 5,8/10. Another fitting sequel/prequel to the Cube trilogy. Not many movies can tell the story before the first two, and still be satisfying along with an A-Ha moment along with it. Quirky characters help this one through a story that by this point you are aware of. The ultimate escape room. As of this year, the original director has been tapped for a reboot. Count me IN.